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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 3955963, member: 4910&quot;]Edward I:</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward was sometimes called &quot;Longshanks&quot; as he was extremely tall (6&#039; 2&quot;) for the time, when the average height for men was 5&#039; 6&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edward was on a Crusade in 1272 when his father died and for several years England issued coins with his father&#039;s name Henry III on them.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_england_edward1_penny_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:</p><p>HENRICVS REX III, the text starting in the upper left, the first letter is an &#039;h&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse:</p><p>Voided cross, a &quot;voided cross&quot; has the cross limbs divided by lines.</p><p>IOH ON SEINTED, started on the left side just above the cross limb.</p><p>The &quot;IOH ON SEINTED&quot; is the moneyer and mint, John de Burnedisse of Bury St. Edmund.</p><p>IOH (John) ON (at) SEINT (Saint) ED (Edmund)</p><p>Bury St. Edmund was a church town and the mint was run by the church.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a tiny little coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight: 1.47gm</p><p>Diameter: 17mm x 19mm</p><p>Class: 6, the classes are from Laurie Asher Lawrence&#039;s early 1900&#039;s numismatic magazine articles on English pennies</p><p>Catalog: Seaby 1377 from B. A. Seaby Standard Catalogue of British Coins (Seaby/Spink)</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are fairly common and are frequently found by metal detectors in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Henry III started making &quot;long cross&quot; pennies in 1247, the design replaced the &quot;short cross&quot; pennies.</p><p>People were taking the silver coins and clipping off bits of silver to sell.</p><p>The long cross made the clipping more obvious.</p><p>Classes 1-5 were issued by Henry III, classes 6-7 were issued by Edward with Henry&#039;s name.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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